What color are her eyebrows? |
My teens have medium gold/blonde hair at 16 (one boy, one girl). It's been the same color since about 10, it was more of a platinum blonde when they were toddlers. Mine is still blonde at 50, but darker, and probably 10/15 percent grey. As other have mentioned, mine will lighten up significantly in the summer if I spend time at the pool. |
My blonde turned dark brown in my 30s. Instead of highlighting I darken my eyebrows, and never leave without mascara. Everyone thought I started dying my hair. Anytime I get it cut I get comments on how dark it is. |
Op, if the tween is blonde now, they will look good blonde later - even if it's not natural.
I was never a blonde but if I had been as a young woman, I would have done what was needed to keep it. |
I was white-blonde as a kid, light blonde in high school, started darkening a bit in college. It would bleach out a lot in the summers at my lifeguarding job, and eventually the roots, while still definitely blonde, were dark enough that the contrast with the summery bits made it look like was in desperate need of a salon visit. I started using a semipermanent color on it when I was in grad school, just so it wouldn't look like I colored it when I went back to school and the roots grew in.
Now, in my 40s, it's probably a very dark blonde, but whenever I've tried to move closer to my current "real" color, I find it's too drab and makes me look old and tired. I've settled on coloring it back to the light blonde I had in high school, which works much better with my eyebrows and skin tone. |
I was blonde at 14 and am dirty blonde at 44. Summer always lightens it quite a bit, which carries over into the rest of year. My hair is long, so I think the repeated sun exposure each summer has an impact on how blonde it has stayed over the years. |
+1. White blond as a kid, regular blond as a teen, and then darker over the years. Now 50. Most blonds go darker over time - how dark? You really need to look at the relatives. That will usually give you an indication, but not always - especially if there aren't a lot of blonds. I was the only blond in my family, but there were a bunch of red heads! |
PP here. I also never have to highlight my hair in the summer, even at 50. It goes pretty blond on it's own. In winter, it gets darker, so I'll do highlights. |
I was white blonde in high school, but it was southern california so we were outside for hours each day all year long. When I came east for college, it darkened a little, but I think it's really just back to it's non sun-bleached color. It is definitely still blonde but with reddish highlights. My sister in seattle has the exact same hair. When either of us spend more than a couple weeks in the sun, it's bright blonde again. In the gloom, it has red undertones.
FWIW, my eyebrows are still completely white. I have to darken them so they show up. |
Depends on how blonde? DD was never that white blonde, but she was very blonde, around 12 her hair got a bit darker, then super light during summers stayed till December... then same kind of cycle. I thought she would be brunette by now, 17, but she is ash blonde. I think it will darken more, but seems to stick with the ash blonde streak, rather than brown. |
I was a tow head as a young child. Light blond as a teen. It started getting dark in my late 20s. It’s dark blond now at 51. But I skipped gray hair and went right to white. So I have several chunks of white hair now. |
This is going to read snarky, but im sincere. I’m glad for you that this is your biggest concern for your teen. |
It may stay or it may darken. Please don’t feed her the idea she’s more or less beautiful based on how blonde her hair is. |
Our niece had her grandmother's very, very pale blonde hair as a baby and toddler but it's now a light brown in college. Yet my DD has medium brown hair that at age 17 is developing lots of caramel- to honey-blonde streaks, the the point that friends have asked if she started highlighting it! (And no, she didn't take up swimming--we got asked that too; pool chlorine can lighten hair). There's no telling what happens with age! |
+1. |